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Debra H. Weiner — Experiments and Data

The ESP-Nexus page for Debra H. Weiner is currently a placeholder — full content is noted as pending a curator and generator pass. What the sources retrieved for this question do establish is a picture of her role in the field through editorial and collaborative work, though her own experimental output is not detailed in the passages available here.

Editorial and Curatorial Role

The clearest picture from the retrieved sources is Weiner’s editorial work on the Research in Parapsychology annual proceedings series, published by Scarecrow Press. She appears as an editor on multiple volumes:

• **Weiner & Radin (Eds.), Research in Parapsychology 1985** — this volume includes Rick E. Berger and Charles Honorton’s paper introducing the automated psi ganzfeld testing system ^[3][4], as well as G. Rein’s psychokinesis and neurotransmitter metabolism study ^[4].
• **Weiner & Morris (Eds.), Research in Parapsychology 1987** — which includes Rick E. Berger’s “Search of ‘psychic signatures’ in random data” ^[3].

These editorial roles placed her at the center of the field’s primary annual literature-gathering effort during the mid-to-late 1980s.

Peer Review and Collegial Contributions

Kennedy (1994) explicitly acknowledges that Debra Weiner made “valuable comments on an earlier version” of his paper on research strategy and the limits of scientific investigation in parapsychology ^[3] — indicating an active peer-review and collegial role within the research community beyond editorship.

What the Sources Do Not Cover

The retrieved sources do not contain descriptions of experiments Weiner herself designed or led, nor effect sizes, sample sizes, or findings from studies under her name as a primary investigator. The excerpts available here do not establish those details, and the ESP-Nexus page for her is not yet populated with that content.

Skeptical Critiques

No skeptical engagement with Weiner’s work specifically appears in the retrieved sources.

For her full profile once it is populated, see Debra H. Weiner on ESP-Nexus. For broader context on the research environment she edited within, the Rick E. Berger page covers the autoganzfeld work and forensic audits that appeared in the volumes she co-edited.